This was a great listening experience.  I am highlighting it as an audio story because I truly think my love for Father of the Daleks is in no small part due to her narration.  Sophie Aldred does so much bringing the Daleks, Davros, and even the Eleventh Doctor to life with her voice work here.  It is damn hard to make a Dalek sound good without a ring modulator, and I am so impressed by how well Aldred is able to make up for that without it ever once being a distraction.

I also very much like this story.  Sure, we've seen the Daleks turn on Davros many a time before, but I've never felt it with so much emotional weight to it.  As this story is told from Davros' perspective, we get a great sense of his insights into the Daleks.  Him thinking about how they only know hatred as an emotion, yet he keeps either projecting his own feelings onto his "children," or is sensing other emotions stirring in them, is so dang interesting.  And I very much like the scenes between Davros and the Doctor - "two old men" - as Davros puts it.  There's a lot of compelling material here.  I particularly like how close Davros comes to recognizing the need for change in his own creations, yet he is unable to accept what that would look like or what it truly means for him.  It's good stuff, especially in the context of this being a story on the eve of the Time War.

I'm surprised more people don't like this one.  This might be my favourite character piece on Davros I have encountered... ever!  I had a lot of fun and would recommend you get the Wintertime Paradox just for this and a couple of other great stories, and I haven't even finished the entire book yet!